The drastic shortage of housing among working people could be plugged with a Government-backed National Housing Fund of £100 billion over 10 years, providing up to 75,000 extra new homes a year, a report by the independent think tank ResPublica has found. Launched in late November, the new report on housing called Going to Scale sets out how government can meet Britain’s housing challenge and deliver the homes that are desperately needed around the country. It proposes a long-term...